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Hi
This was taken a couple of years ago on a trip to Egypt. I would really appreciate some critique and feedback on this, I'm thinking of entering it into a salon under the travel section and was wondering how you think it will fair.
(The picture was taken usiing the Canon 400D, Kit Lens EF-S 18-55 f3.5/5.6, taken at f7.1, 1/125, ISO 200)
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best Wishes
Tracey
| Camera: | Canon EOS 400D |
| Lens: | EF-S 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Title: | Balloon at Sunrise |
| Username: | 
Tracey_McGovern |
| Uploaded: | 19 Feb 2012 - 5:00 PM |
| Tags: | Balloon, Egypt, Landscape, Landscape / travel, Sunrise, Travel |
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Comments
The light is amazing. The sky, the sun is amazing. A brilliant shot.
Regards, Oleg.
Were you in another balloon when you shot this, Tracey? I did this myself (my partner chickened out) and it was amazing.
My first thought was about moving the balloon over, so I agree with Willie there.
Go ahead and enter it.
Pamela.
Hi Willie
Thank you for your mod, it didn't even enter my head to move the balloon, not because it didn't need to be but because I didn't know how to. I've had a go with mine and have managed to move the balloon, however, I'm now left with a big black hole where the balloon used to be. I've tried various methods: cloning, healing, selecting and copying and pasting other bits of the sky to cover it up but all I've managed to do is make a big mess. How have you successfully move your balloon, yet make the sky look flawless?
Thank you to everyone else for their comments, they are very much appreciated.
Best Wishes
Tracey
I used the lasso tool with a few pixels feather to select the balloon. The Copy (control c) and Paster (control v). This places a copy on top of the balloon. The I used the move tool to re position the new balloon. You now have two ballons. You could, if you wanted, leave two, - but they are identical, so it looks odd.
So now use your Marquee selection tool; select a square of sky that will match as close as possible to the sky where the balloon is , and the size of the balloon (I used the sky to the left of the balloon; copy and paste again, and drag the sky patch over the original balloon. Then you can edit - transform - scale and make the patch larger, stretch it until it looks reasonably good, then flatten. Use a clone brush with about 59% flow and 59% opacity to clone over the edges of the patch to blend them in if theyre too obvious.
regards
Willie
Thank you Willie, I'll give that a go - thanks again.
Tracey 
I like your original and I like the tonal correction in Willies mod. I wouldn't move the baloon as far as in the mod - about half way between yours and Willies. A nice image with a lot of impact. Salons are difficult to rate - you have no idea what the judges are looking for, but advertising there country is a fair bet and this should be OK.
Paul
Thanks everyone, especially Willie. I tried what you said and it worked a treat, I'm really pleased with the result, although as Paul suggested, I've not moved the balloon over as much.
Best Wishes
Tracey
Thank you all for your comments. I have uploaded a modification of my original image, taking on board your comments.
Thank You
Tracey
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